Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

Constancy is the chimera of love.

The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of them through their ideas, and if we see a few whom, in a way, speculation over great things makes incapable of mean ones, we find still more with whom the practice of small things takes away the feeling for great ones.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.